My Family
This is me, Erin, and my husband, Bobby, with our alpacas, Baden & Van Bramer
Nother pic of me, hard at work.
This is Bobby mowing the dirt
This is my oldest son, Tyler, with his chicken, George (may she rest in peace)
...and him hiding
...and out in the pasture
This is...
My Other Animals
These are my alpacas Baden and Van Bramer. Baden is the brown alpaca. He is a huacaya alpaca and has dense fluffy fiber. Van Bramer, the white alpaca, is a Suri alpaca, and has silky hanging fiber. They are both boys. We hope to get them girlfriends someday.
Freshly...
My Chickens
I am working on getting a flock that lays a wide variety of different colored eggs. Due to a dog attack I am down to mostly white egg layers. (Not that it matters right now- everyone is moulting and no one is laying.)
Standard Breeds
Bertha is an Easter Egger. She lays pretty green...
Chicken Coop 5000
After buying some chicks at the feed store we discovered they grow REALLY fast!! We decided we needed somewhere to keep them, and quick. Therefore, construction on the chicken coop 5000 started. The chicken coop is 8ft by 4ft and 8 ft tall. It has 6 nesting boxes, which is...
Chicken Coop 2000z
I started construction on this coop while I had some silkie eggs cooking in the incubator. It was made of mostly salvaged and scrap materials from my yard and my neighbor's yard. I only spent about $40 for 2 sheets of plywood and the hardware. The coop is about 3 ft deep and...
Chicken Coop 240
My chicken coops seem to be getting smaller and smaller. I started this coop because, once again, I have more eggs incubating. Since some of these are with a broody, I wanted an area separate from the other chickens with its own small pen. Instead, it is acting as a quarantine...
I am hatching showgirls. When I came home from work Sunday morning one had pipped and it hatched by the time I left for work Sunday night. Hopefully, when I come home in the morning I will have some more pips. I have never had any hatch on day 19. They often start hatching on day 20 and hatch...
Yesterday when I was candling my eggs before I put them in the hatcher I could hear cheeping out of one. I have never heard one this early. Has anyone heard their chicks this early, and did it turn out ok??
Wanted to give positive feedback for a few BYCers.
Halo- beautiful EEs. Great packing and hatch rate
pasofinofarm- golden cuckoo marans- great packing, great hatch rate, beautiful chicks. always willing to answer my many questions
fowlsrus- good packing, 7 day candling looks good!
Thanks...
onthespot- im glad someone knows how i feel. Here is some pics of them. One of them has some white on the foot feathering, the other on a wing feather. If i would've opened the wing up you probably could have seen it more. I'm not really sure on gender on them. For the longest time I thought...
Thanks...I may try that and see if it works. My roosts are actually higher than the nesting boxes. I think some of them just like the more enclosed area.